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This plant is beautiful and the hummingbirds love it. The pastel flowers seem to just dance in the breeze high above the rosette of leaves. I grow this as an annual. It reseeds so once you have it you do not have to buy more. However, it does not take off until it gets consistently hot weather, so if you live in a cold zone like mine I recommend either starting some indoors or buying plants otherwise depending on the weather you don't see anything much until mid august.

I dumped pots out as dead from heat and drought of 2012 summer into a hole left by a huge oak that blew down and forgot about it. Early in the year I noticed the leaves as it emerged and it's just gotten bigger and better. A keeper in my beds. Not sure if I should call it a perennial just yet as we didn't have much winter.

I don't know why anyone would ever want to remove this plant! I have it growing in light shade and it's such an easy plant, beautiful foliage and wonderfully fragrant!
I highly recommend it for a moon garden!

This plant is much larger and more prolific than I imagined. It has been in full bloom since the spring, and it is now mid-October; I actually planted it last year and in the San Francisco Bay Area it is a perennial. Hummingbirds love this plant. The flowers open white then turn pale pink, and finally turn an intense deep pink, so there are different colors all over the same plant. It is very tropical looking with very large leaves, but tries to take over the bed by underground shoots - these are easy to remove, however.